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MF Table
Directive: MF
Definition: Micro Focus VS COBOL
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| ++INCLUDE | 1.1 | | |
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| ACCEPT DISPLAY CONTROL clause | 2.2 | | |
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| ACCEPT/DISPLAY non-scrolling data | LII | | |
| item (ie ADIS) | | | |
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| ACCEPT/DISPLAY non-scrolling data | 1.3 | G | |
| item enhanced | | | |
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| ACCEPT/DISPLAY screen item | 1.3 | R | |
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| ACCEPT: AT phrase enhanced with | 1.3 | R | |
| LINE and COLUMN | | | |
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| ACCEPT: NOT ON EXCEPTION and | 2.0 | | |
| END-ACCEPT | | | |
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| ACCEPT: ON EXCEPTION | 1.3 | | |
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| ACCEPT: ON ESCAPE | 1.3 | | |
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| ASSIGN: all entries but the first | LII | | D |
| are documentary | | | |
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| ASSIGN: noise-word DISK before | 1.3 | R | |
| external file-name | | | |
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| ASSIGN: DISK as external file-name | 1.3 | R | |
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| ASSIGN: DISPLAY as external | 1.3 | | |
| file-name | | | |
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| ASSIGN: KEYBOARD as external | 1.3 | R | |
| file-name | | | |
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| ASSIGN: PRINTER as external | 1.3 | R | |
| file-name | | | |
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| ASSIGN: PRINTER-1 as external | 1.3 | | |
| file-name | | | |
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| ASSIGN: KEYBOARD with external | 1.3 | R | |
| file-name | | | |
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| ASSIGN: PRINTER with external | 1.3 | R | |
| file-name | | | |
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| ASSIGN TO LINE ADVANCING | LII | | |
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| ASSIGN TO MULTIPLE REEL/UNIT (on | LII | | |
| floppies) | | | |
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| ASSIGN TO environment-variable | 1.2 | R | |
| (EXTERNAL) | | | |
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| ASSIGN TO ":CE:" error stream | 1.5 | | |
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| ASSIGN TO identifier | LII | | |
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| ASSIGN TO nonnumeric literal | LII | | |
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| ASSIGN TO DISK FROM | 2.0 | | |
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| ASSIGN clause enhanced | 1.3 | G | |
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| AUTO clause/option | 1.3 | R | |
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| Alphabet clause forbidden; | LII | E | |
| alphabet got from O/S | | | |
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| Alphabet-name IS ASCII/EBCDIC | 1.5 | | |
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| Area-A can contain statements | LII | | |
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| BACKGROUND-COLOR clause/option | 1.3 | R | |
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| BEEP clause/option | 1.3 | R | |
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| BELL clause/option | 1.3 | R | |
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| BLANK LINE/SCREEN clause | 1.3 | R | |
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| BLANK WHEN ZERO clause in Screen | 1.3 | | |
| Section | | | |
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| BLINK clause/option | 1.3 | R | |
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| BLOCK CONTAINS clause | LII | | D |
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| CALL-CONVENTION | 2.2R | | |
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| CALL: operand is file-name not | LII | | |
| program-id | | | |
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| CALL: sequence of search | 1.5 | | |
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| CALL: BY VALUE | 1.4 | | |
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| CALL file-name | LII | | |
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| CALL parameter SIZE IS clause | 2.2 | | |
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| CALLs of non-COBOL subroutines | LII | | |
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| CALLs of libraries | LII | | |
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| CANCEL: effect on subprograms in | 1.5 | | |
| same group | | | |
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| CANCEL: effect on entry-points | 1.5 | | |
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| CHAIN to run-unit | 1.3 | R | |
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| CHAINING synonymous with USING in | 1.3 | R | |
| PROC DIV header | | | |
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| CLOSE: NO REWIND phrase is | LII | | |
| documentary | | | |
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| CODE-SET clause | LII | | D |
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| CODE-SET: FOR clause | 1.5 | | |
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| COLOR is data-name | 2.2 | | |
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| COLUMN clause | 1.3 | R | |
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| COLUMN clause with + and - signs | 1.3 | | |
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| COMMIT statement | LII | | |
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| COMPUTE: Intermediate results; all | LII | | |
| 36 digits used | | | |
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| CONSOLE IS CRT | LII | | |
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| COPY with nonnumeric-literal | LII | | |
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| COPY-file without quotes | 1.3 | | |
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| CRT STATUS clause | LII | | |
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| CRT status key enhanced to 3 bytes | 1.3 | | |
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| CURRENCY SIGN clause forbidden; | LII | | I |
| c.s. got from O/S | | | |
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| CURSOR IS data-name | LII | | |
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| Collating seq for relation | LII | | I |
| conditions got from O/S | | | |
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| Collating seq for inx files and | LII | | I |
| srt got from O/S | | | |
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| Color Handling | 1.3 | G | |
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| Comma (as separator) with no | LII | | |
| following space | | | |
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| Features | When Introduced | Effect of | Status |
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| Comma is allowed anywhere between | LII | | |
| words | | | |
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| Comment can be indicated by "*" in | LII | | I |
| column 1 | | | |
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| Comparing non-DISPLAY items with | LII | | |
| nonnumeric items | | | |
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| Comp(utational) sub-set | LII | | I |
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| Comp sub-set: cease to publish | 1.5 | | |
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| Constant-names (ie level-78s) | LII | | |
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| DATA RECORD clause in report file | 1.3 | | |
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| DECIMAL POINT clause forbidden; | LII | | I |
| dec pt got from O/S | | | |
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| DELETE FILE statement | 1.3 | R | |
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| DISPLAY packed-dec: sign shown as | LII | | |
| leading separate | | | |
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| DISPLAY SPACE UPON CRT | LII | | |
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| DISPLAY UPON CONSOLE | LII | | |
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| DISPLAY UPON CRT-UNDER | LII | | |
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| DISPLAY with no operand, to move | 1.3 | R | |
| cursor | | | |
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| DIVIDE: do subscr of remainder | 1.1 | | |
| after store quotnt | | | |
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| Data items aligned as specified by | LII | | I |
| directive | | | |
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| Declarative can be entered by | 1.2 | | |
| PERFORM or GO TO | | | |
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| Declarative need not have USE | 1.5 | | |
| statement | | | |
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| Declarative only executed if file | LII | | |
| has status item | | | |
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| Directives embedded in source or | 1.3 | | |
| in a file | | | |
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| Divisions, sections & paras up to | LII | | |
| W-S are optional | | | |
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| EBCDIC character set (CODE-SET | 1.5 | | |
| clause) | | | |
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| EBCDIC signs | 1.3 | | |
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| Features | When Introduced | Effect of | Status |
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| END-CHAIN | 2.2 | R | |
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| ENTRY . . BY VALUE parameters | 2.2 | | |
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| EXECUTE(EXEC for short) | 1.2 | R | |
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| EXIT need not be alone in sentence | LII | | |
| or paragraph | | | |
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| EXIT PROGRAM RETURNING | 2.2 | R | |
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| European (Continental) character | LII | G | |
| handling (most of) | | | |
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| European (Continental) character | LII | G | |
| handling (rest of) | | | |
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| Exception-phrase in ACCEPT | 1.3 | R | |
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| FOREGROUND-COLOR clause/option | 1.3 | R | |
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| FULL clause/option | 1.3 | R | |
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| File handler (new) | 2.0 | | |
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| Flagging of features according to | 1.2 | | I |
| dialect | | | |
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| Flagging of levels of the 1974 | LII | | I |
| COBOL Standard | | | |
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| Flagging of features not in SAA | 2.0 | | I |
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| Foreign language message texts | 1.4 | | |
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| Function-name COMMAND-LINE | LII | R | |
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| Function-name FORMFEED | LII | | |
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| Function-name TAB | LII | | |
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| GOBACK RETURNING | 2.2 | R | |
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| GRID, LEFTLINE and OVERLINE | 2.0 | | |
| clauses | | | |
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| HIGHLIGHT clause/option | 1.3 | R | |
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| Features | When Introduced | Effect of | Status |
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| HIGH-VALUE is hex 7F | LII | | |
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| HIGH-VALUE is hex FF | 1.1 | E | |
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| Hexadecimal nonnumeric literals | LII | | |
| (X"nn...") | | | |
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| Hexadecimal numeric literals | 1.1 | | |
| (H"nn...") | | | |
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| I-O-status for "file locked" | LII | | |
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| I-O-status for "record locked" | LII | | |
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| I-O-statuses: values as in ANSI | 2.0 | | I |
| 74 | | | |
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| even if ANS85 | | | |
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| I-O-statuses: values as in RM | 1.5 | | I |
| COBOL | | | |
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| Index is 2, 4 or 8 bytes COMP-X | 1.3 | | |
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| Index is 2 bytes COMP | LII | | |
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| Index is 2 bytes COMP-X | 1.3 | | I |
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| Index can be set by other than SET | LII | | |
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| Index can be set by other than SET | LII | | |
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| Index need be in range only when | LII | | |
| used | | | |
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| JUSTIFIED clause in Screen Section | 1.3 | | |
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| Kanji | LII | | I |
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| LEFT-JUSTIFY option | 1.3 | R | |
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| LINE clause in Screen Section | 1.3 | | |
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| LINE clause with + and - signs | 1.3 | | |
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| LOCAL-STORAGE SECTION | 2.2 | R | |
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| LOCK MODE clause | LII | | |
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| LOCK MODE: WITH LOCK clause | LII | | |
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| Limits for SAA | 2.0 | | |
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| MODE IS BLOCK | 1.3 | | |
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| MOVE non-integer numeric to | LII | | |
| alphanumeric | | | |
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| MOVE non-int num to alphanum: | 1.5 | | |
| standardize behavior | | | |
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| MULTIPLE FILE TAPE is documentary | LII | | |
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| Move record pointer if record | 1.5 | | |
| locked | | | |
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| Multi-user default MANUAL, LOCK, | LII | R | |
| MULTIPLE RECORDS | | | |
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| Multi-user files | LII | R | |
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| NUMERIC SIGN IS TRAILING SEPARATE | 1.2 | R | |
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| National Language Support | LII | | G |
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| Nonnumeric characters in numeric | 1.5 | | |
| items | | | |
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| OCCURS: can subscript with index | LII | | |
| of another table | | | |
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| OCCURS DEPENDING: several in | LII | | |
| record (not shifted up) | | | |
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| OCCURS 49 deep (but can't | LII | | |
| subscript so deep) | | | |
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| OCCURS clause in Screen Section | 1.3 | | |
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| OCCURS with 01-levels and | LII | | |
| 77-levels | | | |
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| OPEN EXCLUSIVE | LII | R | |
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| OPEN EXTEND of non-existent file | LII | | |
| creates it | | | |
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| OPEN I-O absent file creates, | LII | | I |
| unless NOT OPTIONAL | | | |
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| OPEN OUTPUT of existing file | LII | | |
| deletes it | | | |
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| ORGANIZATION: LINE SEQUENTIAL | LII | | |
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| ORGANIZATION: RECORD SEQUENTIAL | 1.2 | | |
| (=sequential) | | | |
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| ORGANIZATION SEQUENTIAL on | LII | | |
| sort-file | | | |
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| Object-computer paragraph is | LII | | |
| partly documentary | | | |
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| PICTURE clause in Screen Section | 1.3 | | |
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| PRINTER IS clause in Special-names | 1.3 | | |
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| PROC DIV USING: parameters outside | 1.3 | R | |
| Linkage Section | | | |
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| Procedure pointers | 2.2 | R | |
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| PROMPT clause/option | 1.3 | R | |
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| Paragraph hdr: first in Proc Div | LII | | |
| or Sec optional | | | |
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| Program-id paragraph is optional | LII | | |
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| READ: LOCK phrase before INTO | LII | R | |
| phrase | | | |
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| READ PREVIOUS | 1.3 | R | |
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| READ WITH LOCK/KEPT LOCK | LII | | |
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| READ WITH NO LOCK | 1.1 | | |
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| RECORD CONTAINS clause | LII | | D |
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| RECORD KEY: no restrictions on | LII | | |
| PICTURE or USAGE | | | |
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| RECORD KEY: split keys | 1.3 | | |
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| RENAMES: gets same properties as | LII | | |
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| RENAMEd item | | | |
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| REQUIRED clause/option | 1.3 | R | |
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| RETURN-CODE | 2.2 | R | |
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| RETURN-CODE length can be | 2.0 | | |
| specified | | | |
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| REVERSE-VIDEO clause/option | 1.3 | R | |
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| RIGHT-JUSTIFY | 1.3 | R | |
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| ROLLBACK (documentary) | LII | R | |
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| Recursion | 2.2 | | |
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| Reference modification: length in | 1.4 | | |
| data item can be zero | | | |
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| Reference modifiers out of range | 1.4 | | |
| at run-time | | | |
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| RESERVE clause documentary | LII | | |
| AREA-VALUE except creates | | | |
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| Reserved words can be changed | 1.3 | | |
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| Run-time switches: adopt existing | 1.5 | | |
| and set up control | | | |
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| Ryan McFarland (RM) COBOL: | 1.3 | | G |
| functionality from | | | |
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| SCREEN SECTION CONTROL clause | 2.2 | | |
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| SECURE clause/option | 1.3 | R | |
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| SEGMENT-LIMIT clause is | LII | | D |
| documentary | | | |
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| SET POINTER UP/DOWN | 2.2 | | |
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| SIGN clause in the Screen Section | 1.3 | | |
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| SIZE clause/option | 1.3 | | |
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| SORT STATUS clause | 1.3 | R | |
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| SPACE-FILL option | 1.3 | R | |
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| START LESS THAN, NOT GREATER THAN, | 1.5 | | I |
| etc | | | |
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| START LESS THAN, NOT GREATER THAN | 2.0 | | I |
| , etc generic | | | |
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| STOP RUN RETURNING | 2.2 | R | |
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| SYNCHRONIZED: effect varies; on | LII | | |
| most RTSs, none | | | |
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| Screen handling (new) | 1.3 | G | |
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| Screen handling (old) | LII | G | |
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| Screen Section | 1.3 | | |
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| Screen Section CONTROL Clause | 2.2 | | |
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| Screen description clauses | 1.3 | G | |
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| Sections when proc div doesn't | LII | | |
| start with section | | | |
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| Sequence numbers zero-suppressed | LII | | I |
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| Signs as implemented by OEM | 1.4 | | I |
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| Source-computer para is docary | LII | | |
| except DEBUGGING | | | |
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| Spaces in numeric items | 1.4 | | I |
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| Stable sort as if WITH DUP'S | 1.5 | | I |
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| Subscripting to >3 levels (limit | LII | | |
| about 9) | | | |
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| Subscripting to 16 levels | 1.3 | | |
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| Switch-names SWITCH 0 to SWITCH 7 | LII | | |
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| Switch-name SWITCH 8 | 1.3 | | |
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| Switch-names SWITCH-0 to SWITCH-8 | 1.3 | | |
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| TRAILING-SIGN option | 1.3 | R | |
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| Tracing of execution | 1.3 | | |
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| Turning reserved words for all MF | 1.1 | | |
| features on/off | | | |
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| Turning reserved words for MF | 1.3 | | |
| dialects on/off | | | |
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| UNDERLINE clause/option | 1.3 | R | |
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| UNLOCK statement | LII | R | |
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| UPDATE option | 1.3 | R | |
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| USAGE clause: extra options | LII | | |
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| USAGE COMPUTATIONAL-5/COMP-5 | 1.3 | R | |
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| USAGE COMPUTATIONAL-X/COMP-X | 1.1 | R | |
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| USE: implicit default USE-proc on | LII | | |
| all files | | | |
| | | | |
| VALUE: numeric lit allowed with | 1.3 | | |
| num-edited item | | | |
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| VALUE OF data-name clause is | LII | | |
| documentary | | | |
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| VALUE OF FILE-ID clause | 1.3 | R | |
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| VALUE OF allowed with sort-file | LII | | |
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| VALUE clause in the Screen Section | 1.3 | | |
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| WITH phrase in ACCEPT/DISPLAY | 1.3 | | |
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| WRITE FROM literal | 1.3 | | |
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| ZERO-FILL clause/option with | 1.3 | R | |
| nonnumeric items | | | |
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| ZERO-FILL option with numeric | 1.3 | R | |
| items | | | |
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